dolt:
(plural: ‘dolts‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a slow-thinking foolish person;
a blockhead;
a stupid; a dunce,
e.g.
More and more members of the staff have begun to call the assistant manager a ‘dolt’ because he’s slow to respond to their demands, and the boss is worried where the assistant is really becoming a dolt because of his age or the work pressure.
When people elects dolts as their representatives, who’s the actual dolts, the people or the politicians?
When a team of experts comes with something new, the media glorifies them as the best think-tank, but when something goes wrong because of some miscalculation, the same media decries that the members of the team are dolts!
For the origin of dolt, please click here, for a blog post that shows us how politicians with high profiles are susceptible to being called dolts, please click here and for an article about a dolt on Volt, please click here.
